The continued detention of a severely psychopathic criminal in a psychiatric detention center because he continues to pose a threat to public safety has not violated his right to liberty nor constitutes inhuman treatment.
JUDGMENT Maddalozzo v. Switzerland 16.01.2020 (no. 19338/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned an order for continued psychiatric detention after a prior five-year prison sentence. The order had been issued on 8 December 2016 by the post-sentencing court of the Canton of Geneva. The Court considered, first of all, that the applicant had been provided […]
